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A24 world
guardian.co.tt Thursday, March 9, 2017
NASSAU---Billionaire
Canadian clothing
manufacturer Peter
Nygard was Tuesday
fined $50,000 by a Ba-
hamian judge for vio-
lating a court order to
stop environmentally
damaging dredging
near his beachfront
home in The Bahamas.
Supreme Court Jus-
tice Rhonda Bain found
Nygard in contempt of
court for violating her
2013 order to stop dredg-
ing the seabed around his
property on Lyford Cay,
on the western edge of
Nassau Island. She gave
him until March 21 to pay
the fine or be remanded to
prison for 14 days.
The judge also ruled
that Nygard must remove
the sand he piled along
his beach, in violation
of her order, by April 7
or pay another $50,000
fine, plus $1,000 per day
for every day he violates
her ruling.
He also was ordered to
pay court costs for Save
the Bays (STB), a local en-
vironmental group which
had asked the court to jail
the fashion mogul for
his contempt of the 2013
court ruling.
"This is an extraordi-
nary triumph for envi-
ronmental justice in the
Bahamas," said attorney
Fred Smith, who argued
the case on behalf of STB.
Over the years, accord-
ing to Smith, Nygard has
almost doubled the size
of his property by dig-
ging up sand offshore
and spreading it along
his beachfront, harming
reefs and other natural
habitats.
"Mr Nygard has been
damaging the environ-
ment for years... Today,
everybody should be
thankful that the Su-
preme Court of the Ba-
hamas has once again
upheld the rule of law and
held Mr Nygard account-
able," the attorney said.
STB has brought sev-
eral judicial review cases
against Nygard over off-
shore construction works
allegedly carried out in
the absence of necessary
permits and approvals
and which have resulted
in the near doubling of
the size of his property.
(Caribbean360)
Fashion mogul fined for
hurting marine environment
Billionaire Canadian
clothing manufacturer
Peter Nygard.
LA PAZ---President Evo Morales
has signed into law a bill that near-
ly doubles the amount of land in
Bolivia that can be legally planted
with coca.
Morales returned home Tuesday
night after receiving treatment in
Cuba for a nodule in his vocal chords.
He'd had to cancel previous speak-
ing events after losing his voice to a
sore throat. But he spoke for nearly an
hour yesterday in favour of the law. It
allows farmers to plant up to 22,000
hectares (54,00 acres) of coca, up from
12,000 (29,000) under previous leg-
islation.
Morales is a former coca farmer who
rose to power supporting legalisation
of the plant for traditional purposes.
(AP)
Bolivia's Morales approves coca law